â The Republican National Committee announced Friday that it will sanction at least nine presidential primary debates, starting this August in Ohio and continuing through March 2016, with the potential to add three more. The schedule, obtained first by POLITICO, was rolled out at the RNCâs winter meeting here.
Locus. From Latin: locus - place. Definition: A shape created by the set of points whose position satisfies a given set of rules. Try this In the figure below, the small gray dots represent all the possible points on the plane.
Definition: The locus of all points that are equidistant from a given point (focus). and a given line (directrix). Try this Drag the point P. It will move through all the points equidistant from the focus point and the directrix line. Recall that the definition of locus is the set points that meet some given conditions. In this definition of a parabola, it is the shape created by the points that are the same distance from a given point (call the focus) and a given line (called the directrix)*.